Individualism Quotes

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history

Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

Italy is a geographical expression.

The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.